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Book Design the Life You Love

Download or read book Design the Life You Love written by Ayse Birsel and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interactive journal that serves as a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you've always dreamed of, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints -- time, money, age, location, and circumstances. You can’t have everything, so you have to be creative to make what you want and what you need co-exist. Design the Life You Love is a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you’ve always wanted, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Through four steps that reveal hidden skills and wisdom, anyone can design a life they love!

Book Editorial Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cath Caldwell
  • Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-01
  • ISBN : 1780676263
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Editorial Design written by Cath Caldwell and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial Design: Digital and Print is a comprehensive guide to the traditional and digital skills that a designer will need for a future career in visual journalism today – the design of magazines and newspapers for a wide variety of markets. Generously illustrated, including case studies, practical exercises and tips, examples of best practice and profiles of individual designers including Mark Porter, Scott Dadich and Janet Froelich, the book explains the fundamentals of editorial design and layout. Subjects covered include current and emerging digital formats, branding, how to create layouts, handling copy and images, design, and production skills and trends in editorial design. With insider advice and opinions from leading contemporary designers, the book is a practical reference and learning resource that will teach readers everything they need to know to reach the top of the profession.

Book Nature Back to Design Volume 1

Download or read book Nature Back to Design Volume 1 written by Through Objects and published by Nhp Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of Through Objects showcases a selection of 24 design objects ranging from furniture and lighting to textiles and home accessories. Each of the stories reveals captivating items from pioneering designers and creators, such as Nienke Hoogvliet, Kaja Solgaard Dahl, Studio David Pompa and GT2P.

Book Heroes of the Comics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Drew Friedman
  • Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
  • Release : 2014-09-10
  • ISBN : 1606997319
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Heroes of the Comics written by Drew Friedman and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers of behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering African-American artists. Each subject features a short essay by Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton, Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall of Fame of comic book history from the man BoingBoing.com call “America’s greatest living portrait artist!”

Book Breuer s Bohemia

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Crump
  • Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 1580935788
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Breuer s Bohemia written by James Crump and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breuer's Bohemia explores a vibrant period of midcentury modern design and culture as seen through the influential New England houses designed by Marcel Breuer for his circle of clients and friends. The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which is often overshadowed by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects. Breuer’s Bohemia surveys the houses he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the ’70s, many of which were commissioned by a few culturally progressive clients—chiefly Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin—who coalesced around him into a dynamic social circle. Included in this scene were prominent cultural figures such as Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Philip Roth, and William Styron, and more, marking a unique intersection of postwar architecture, art, and letters. The publication of Breuer’s Bohemia coincides with the feature-length documentary of the same name by author and filmmaker James Crump, exploring Breuer’s explosive residential practice on the East Coast. Through original research and interviews, the voices of principal characters from Breuer’s circle and notable figures from the field of architecture help tell the story of Breuer’s collaborations with his friends and clients, breathing new life into the history of the rich cultural atmosphere of which they all played a vital part. Heavily illustrated with vintage and contemporary photographs as well as rarely seen archival materials, Breuer’s Bohemia is a unique glimpse of a twentieth-century milieu that produced an aesthetic, intellectual, and sometimes sybaritic community during a fertile period of American design and culture.

Book Design

Download or read book Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Design Entrepreneur

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Heller
  • Publisher : Rockport Publishers
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 1610602277
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Design Entrepreneur written by Steven Heller and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers are used to working for clients, but there is nothing better than when the client is oneself. Graphic and product designers, who are skilled with the tools and masters aesthetics, are now in the forefront of this growing entrepreneur movement. Whether personal or collective, drive is the common denominator of all entrepreneurial pursuit; of course, then comes the brilliant idea; and finally the fervent wherewithal to make and market the result. The Design Entrepreneur is the first book to survey this new field and showcase the innovators who are creating everything from books to furniture, clothes to magazines, plates to surfboards, and more. Through case studies with designers like Dave Eggers, Maira Kalman, Charles Spencer Anderson, Seymour Chwast, Jet Mous, Nicholas Callaway, Jordi Duró, and over thirty more from the United States and Europe, this book explores the whys, hows, and wherefores of the conception and production processes. The design entrepreneur must take the leap away from the safety of the traditional designer role into the precarious territory where the public decides what works and what doesn’t. This is the book that shows how that is accomplished.

Book Sottsass

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Burney
  • Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Sottsass written by Jan Burney and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of architect and designer Ettore Sottsass encapsulates the italian achievement in design since the Second World War, This book examines the paradoxes and contradictions of his career. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book Hello World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Rawsthorn
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 2014-02-06
  • ISBN : 1468309307
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Hello World written by Alice Rawsthorn and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness. And yet with Instagram and Pinterest at our fingers and great design more available—and more affordable—than ever, we’ve had no guidebook to this ever-fascinating field. Though it’s an inescapable part of our lives, there has been no single book that could, in one fell swoop, tell us everything we need to know about design. Enter Hello World. The design critic for the International Heard Tribune, Alice Rawsthorn has spent many years reckoning with the history of design and with its place in contemporary life, and Hello World is the extraordinary summation of her research and reporting. Rawsthorn takes us on a trip through design that ranges across continents and centuries, and wherever she goes, she discovers inspiring, thrilling examples of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and sheer vision. From the macabre symbol with which eighteenth-century pirates terrorized their victims into surrender, to one woman’s quest for the best prosthetic legs, to the evolution of the World Cup soccer ball, Hello World describes how warlords, scientists, farmers, hackers, activists, and professional designers have used the complex, often elusive process of design to different ends throughout history. Hailed as a “rapid-fire and illuminating ode to contemporary design†? (Telegraph) and “an extremely readable tour of the subject†? (Financial Times), Hello World is a major work that radically broadens our understanding of what design can mean, and explains how we can use it to make sense of our ever-changing universe.

Book Heroes and Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul May
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2018-03-12
  • ISBN : 0244954151
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Heroes and Saints written by Paul May and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is something of a pictorial autobiography, containing portraits of the figures that have shaped my life... Winston Churchill, Bobby Charlton, Louis Armstrong, Dexter Gordon, Ray Eames, Piet Mondrian, Richard Avedon Carson, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Le Corbusier, John F Kennedy Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, Muddy Waters, Charles Mingus, Mose Allison, Woody Guthrie, Edith Piaf, Mo Farrer and Barack Obama, amongst many others...

Book Design And Truth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Grudin
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-20
  • ISBN : 0300162030
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Design And Truth written by Robert Grudin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If good design tells the truth,” writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, “poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related . . . to the getting or abusing of power.” From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to the much-maligned Ford Edsel of the late 1950s, all products of human design communicate much more than their mere intended functions. Design holds both psychological and moral power over us, and these forces may be manipulated, however subtly, to surprising effect. In an argument that touches upon subjects as seemingly unrelated as the Japanese tea ceremony, Italian mannerist painting, and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, Grudin turns his attention to the role of design in our daily lives, focusing especially on how political and economic powers impress themselves on us through the built environment. Although architects and designers will find valuable insights here, Grudin’s intended audience is not exclusively the trained expert but all those who use designs and live within them every day.

Book Art is Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Milton Glaser
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 2008-10-28
  • ISBN : 9781590200063
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Art is Work written by Milton Glaser and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examples of well-known projects abound - ranging from newspapers and magazines to toys, textiles, interiors, posters, and CD covers. If you've ever seen the menu at Windows on the World, used a bottle of ketchup from Grand Union, or read the playbill for Tony Kushner's Angels in America, you've been privy to the conceptual thinking of a powerful force in design."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Logos that Last

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allan Peters
  • Publisher : Rockport Publishers
  • Release : 2023-10-31
  • ISBN : 0760383189
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Logos that Last written by Allan Peters and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to create iconic visual branding that stands the test of time with the innovative tools and inspiration in Logos That Last. Award-winning graphic designer Allan Peters has distilled the knowledge and experience of a 20-year career into this landmark guide for designers and brand strategists of any level. Through the years, Peters has designed hundreds of logos for top brands as well as personal passion projects, and has developed a unique creative process he shares in Logos that Last for the very first time. Learn how to build great relationships with clients, while cultivating consistency and productivity. Logos that Last also includes: Detailed case studies that follow designs from concept to completion Tips for turning a good idea into a great logo Strategies for extending a great logo into a dynamic brand system Advice for turning your passion into your profession With Logos that Last, discover how to create inventive, thoughtful, and enduring logos with Peters’s own hands-on, step-by-step process.

Book The Culture of Design

Download or read book The Culture of Design written by Guy Julier and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: `Julier provides an important contemporary account of how design disciplines act and interact in the world.... an important resource for the student of design... perfection as a cultural studies text′ - European Journal of Cultural Studies Aimed at students of design studies, design history, cultural studies and sociology, The Culture of Design, offers a unique overview of design practice in contemporary culture and society. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Julier nevertheless foregrounds the everyday business and professional context in which designers work. The second edition of The Culture of Design, has been thoroughly revised and updated, and contains new case studies, including one on the iPod. In addition, the book now has a new introductory chapter that outlines academic approaches to ′design culture′ and an extended final chapter which looks at the links between design and management studies and how the creative industries function in the context of urban regeneration and social participation.

Book Establishing Home  Creating Space for a Beautiful Life with Family  Faith  and Friends

Download or read book Establishing Home Creating Space for a Beautiful Life with Family Faith and Friends written by Jean Stoffer and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your unique path to a more beautiful and fulfilling life? Walk alongside award-winning designer Jean Stoffer as she chronicles her own surprising, unhurried journey and be encouraged that there's plenty of time to discover yours. When Jean Stoffer's husband announced he was quitting his extremely stressful job to look for another career, she suddenly needed to bring in a lot more of the family income. The problem was, while she had a degree in business, her part-time job paid very little and she had few obvious options for earning more anytime soon. In Establishing Home, Jean tells how necessity sparked her journey from part-time receptionist to founder of an award-winning home design company and star of the Magnolia Network's show, The Established Home. Along the way, she shares what's she learned about design, business, parenting, and relationships. In Establishing Home Jean will: Inspire you to discover a dream you didn't know you had Reassure you that whether you're building a career, raising a family, or redoing your home, it's okay to slow down and enjoy the journey Teach you practical ideas for combining work and family--and how to work in harmony with adult children Reveal her pro tips for making your home a beautiful place to be Provide gorgeous 4-color photos of her classic, elegant designs for your own inspiration Any home--and life--can become even more beautiful with a little bit of heart.

Book The Primary Curriculum

Download or read book The Primary Curriculum written by Patricia Driscoll and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to be a successful primary teacher you need a clear understanding of good teaching practice across the subjects that make up the primary curriculum. This second edition has been fully updated to include key points from the 2014 National Curriculum in England, balancing a clear discussion of the principles behind high quality teaching with the requirements of current policy. An emphasis on creative approaches supports you in developing inspiring cross-curricular practice in your classroom. New to this edition: Links to the 2014 National Curriculum in England in every chapter Case studies in every chapter provide useful examples of creative teaching in each curriculum subject Expanded coverage on assessment and planning This is essential reading for students on primary initial teacher education courses, including university-based (PGCE, PGDE, BA QTS, BEd), school-based (SCITT, School Direct, Teach First) and employment-based routes into teaching.

Book The New Big Book of Layouts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erin Mays
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-10-19
  • ISBN : 0061970115
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book The New Big Book of Layouts written by Erin Mays and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting collection of the latest and most visually engaging layout designs and design ideas for amateur and professional graphic designers. Organized to encourage creativity, serendipitous discovery, and inspiration, The New Big Book of Layouts includes techniques that can be used to enhance any layout design--be it in print or online. It provides insight into the elements that make layouts effective, and covers a range of styles--from traditional to cutting edge--selected to help designers and design students make their work more creative, more readable, and more visually engaging for an audience. With more than 750 outstanding layouts featured in a robust visual gallery with detailed descriptive information and design analyses, this book provides a thorough look at what goes into today’s most effective layout designs and how designers and design students can improve their work.